The 2024 "Golden Hammer and Sickle - Nghe An" Journalism Award affirms its prestige, stature, appeal and influence.

This is the eighth time the award has been held, and has received increasingly active participation from professional journalists and non-professional writers inside and outside the province, demonstrating the sense of responsibility, passion, dedication and creativity of journalists on the journey to realize the resolutions of the Party Congresses at all levels, while affirming the prestige and stature of the "Golden Hammer and Sickle - Nghe An" Press Award in journalism activities.

Innovation and strengthening of propaganda work

In 2024, the "Golden Hammer and Sickle - Nghe An" Press Award, organized by the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department in coordination with the Nghe An Journalists Association under the direction of the Provincial Party Committee's Standing Committee, entered its 8th season. Following the success of previous seasons, from the beginning of the year, the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department - the Standing agency of the award, has had orientations on topics and genres, selected key issues, good and difficult issues in the direction of closely following the political and key tasks of the province in the year and term. At the same time, organizing field trips to create conditions for journalists to have more materials during their work.

Beyond expectations, in 2024, the Award attracted the participation of many authors from central and local press agencies in the province. From the preliminary round, the judging process was strictly carried out by the council members. After that, the final jury continued to discuss thoroughly to select the best works.

With the initial number of entries from the preliminary selection (including 122 works) from the following categories: Print, electronic, television, radio, press photos that meet the requirements according to the regulations to participate in the contest, it shows that the "Golden Hammer and Sickle - Nghe An" Press Award is increasingly attractive to the press team, contributing to the overall success of the season.

There were 42 works in the final round to award 4 First prizes, 8 Second prizes, 13 Third prizes, 17 Encouragement prizes and 4 thematic prizes, including works: Propaganda on Protecting the Party's ideological foundation, fighting against "Peaceful evolution"; propaganda on the results of promoting administrative reform, digital transformation at all levels and sectors in the province; propaganda on the topic of studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style and an excellent work on implementing Resolution No. 39-NQ/TW, dated July 18, 2023 of the Politburo on directions and tasks for developing Nghe An province to 2030, with a vision to 2045.

According to the assessment of the Final Jury, among the award-winning works this year, there are many works that are carefully invested and of high quality. The highlight of this year is the carefully invested and attractive multimedia journalism products. The entries have closely followed the major themes and rules of the award, reflecting quite richly, vividly, and comprehensively many areas of social life, especially focusing on the theme of consolidating, building, and rectifying the Party from different perspectives. This is the crystallization of the intelligence and strength of the team of reporters and journalist members in the province in 2024, bringing to the picture of the 2024 award season many bright colors, reflecting the vivid reality of the colorful Party building work in many localities.

In general, the number of works participating in the award is mainly in the "construction" mainstream, the way of expression is strongly Party building, closely following the key points in information and propaganda work on Party building, rectification, and consolidation of the political system in 2024, contributing to political and ideological orientation in the Provincial Party Committee.

Honoring the dedication and creativity of journalists

2024, a year of many difficulties and challenges, but it seems that difficulties do not hinder the creative work of the press, it is in the difficulties that give journalists the motivation to create quality journalistic works. This has been demonstrated through the works "more than ten thousand words" of the "Golden Hammer and Sickle - Nghe An 2024" Journalism Award.

Each image, each work, each journalistic perspective in all fields of Party building and political system building has touched the hearts of readers and viewers. There have been many "hot" issues, many topics in all fields of politics, ideology, ethics, organization, inspection, including foreign affairs, anti-corruption, fighting against wrong views, distorted arguments, protecting the ideological foundation of the Party... discovered, meticulously exploited, highlighting the journey of dedication and dedication to daily life of journalists in their work. These are "Results of successful implementation of the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress, term 2020 - 2025 (Nghe An Newspaper); "Miracle" of the 500kV line project, circuit 3 (Nghe An Radio and Television Station); or "Nghe An builds and strengthens the Party organization - Building trust among the people (Voice of Vietnam Radio and Television Station).

In addition to responding to current and unexpected events, the special press "army" always worries about "hot" issues in all areas of Party building and political system building to have long-term in-depth articles, such as: Do not let "strange religions" infiltrate the border areas (Nghe An Radio and Television Station); Firmly maintain the "supports" of villages (Communist Magazine)... Each work is a lesson that the author and group of authors have drawn from the hope that Party committees and authorities anywhere must truly be close to the people, take the people as the root, and care about people's lives, then the people's hearts will be at peace and certainly no force will be able to interfere or cause political instability.

It can be said that the above-mentioned award-winning works have the power to spread, arouse patriotism, love for the homeland, national pride, and actively contribute to strengthening the trust of cadres, party members, and people in the Party. It is also thanks to the dedication and creativity of the press shock force "serving the people", that the work of strengthening Party rectification, building and consolidating the political system has been strongly spread in the mass media, contributing to orienting and creating the power of public opinion, thereby affirming the leadership role of the Party in all fields.

Reality over 8 seasons shows that the accompaniment of the press with Party building activities has created the vitality, spread and practical significance of the "Golden Hammer and Sickle - Nghe An" award. Through each year, each season, experience and lessons are drawn to guide the following seasons. On the basis of inheriting and promoting strengths, the Steering Committee of the "Golden Hammer and Sickle - Nghe An 2024" Press Award has directed to promote communication to create more motivation, create more emulation waves in the Party building team, at the same time, to mobilize more participation of central and local journalists in the province to participate, with many good quality works, especially to encourage the discovery and encouragement of new factors, exemplary Party members, leaders, and leaders at all levels who are exemplary pioneers in "saying and doing"; summarizing practices to clarify more theoretical issues and resolutions of the Party at all levels.

It can be affirmed that the "Golden Hammer and Sickle - Nghe An 2024" Journalism Award has become a place to gather and crystallize the exploration, discovery, and creative work of professional and non-professional journalists, of all ages, backgrounds, and diverse occupations and educational levels. The vivid and rich reality of the province and the important results in the Party building and rectification work in recent times have become valuable materials, inspiring journalists to create quality works on the topic of Party building, bringing the 2024 Golden Hammer and Sickle Award a fruitful season.

Today's award ceremony is a meaningful reward to "fuel" the team of journalists, so that they can continue to contribute their dedicated ideas in the work of building and rectifying the Party, building the political system to bring the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Committee into life, contributing to the successful implementation of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress.